Courier is a suite of programs, and includes a full-fledged MTA. This book assumes that the MTA used is Postfix. It is important that only the POP3 and IMAP components of Courier are installed and configured—an e-mail system would be very unstable if there were two MTAs operating at once.
There are a couple of ways to install Courier-IMAP. Courier-IMAP Redhat Package Managers (RPMs) for several different distributions of Linux are available. These will either be available from the manufacturer of the distribution, or may have been built by a third party, typically an enthusiast or developer of Courier. If a package of Courier-IMAP is not available in RPM, then it has to be built from source.